They're already making lots of money from the people who don't have these older systems. They barely even had to pay money to release the Virtual Console games, since they're software, not hardware. I think they might have had to pay money for 2nd and 3rd party games to be licensed, though. ESRB also had to rate them, but I'm not sure if that costed Nintendo any money.

It truly is a wonderful idea but its never going to happen. Whilst a few people will have registered their games most wont have, so I could just wonder over to someones house I know has an N64, note down all the serial numbers and there we go a free games library.

Well, at least I'm getting to play all of these good ol' games once again. I LOVE The Legend of Zelda for NES. I have the collector's edition for GCN, but it feels much more natural with the Wii Remote turned sideways

Yeah it was one of the first things to make me want a wii. The idea of having the original Mario Kart and it wont break was great to me. Plus I missed the SNES years as I had a megadrive at the time. So lots of catching up to do.

One thing I don't like, though, is that on a New Generation console, The Legend of Zelda lags when there're many enemies on the screen. I think this is because it's emulation, though. I'm not sure how the Wii works.